| Combining Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains | | | | DB platform and from your accounting application |
| ERP with non-Microsoft Business System or CRM: | | | | doesn't work when we consider modern Microsoft: it |
| Lotus Notes Domino, Oracle, DB2 | | | | now offers all in one: Microsoft Great Plains/Navision |
| There are multiple opinions on building your established | | | | Axapta/Solomon/Microsoft CRM/Small Business |
| large business IT system. Some companies prefer to | | | | Financials ERP, based on MS SQL Server DB platform |
| be "Microsoft shop", others prefer to stick to Java | | | | and all this nice suite is working under Microsoft |
| world. In our opinion large company should try balance | | | | Windows 2003 Server. This is very nice to have and |
| its ERP in several layers: Hardware, Operating System, | | | | the price would be lower, however you are in the |
| Database Platform, ERP/CRM software vendor. The | | | | business space and conceptions of Microsoft |
| history always proofs that staking on one thing | | | | corporation, which really deserves you to consider |
| statistically has a chance to fail, remember Windows | | | | either ERP or CRM solution to be trusted and handled |
| Mac battle in the middle of 1990th? Then Java | | | | into Microsoft guyso ERP/Accounting/MRP - we |
| resurrected UNIX world in the end of the 20th century. | | | | suppose that the old days of expensive ERP |
| All these facts just tell us that any prediction of the | | | | application are going to the history. Nowadays we see |
| future should not be accurate, because the factors we | | | | the trend to use reasonably inexpensive and |
| could consider in the prediction formula will be | | | | functionally sufficient applications, based in decent SQL |
| superceded by new conceptions. Good example | | | | platform. So, our suggestion is - do not pay for "high |
| would be C cross-platform programming language - | | | | end" ERP/Accounting system and rather consider |
| however now we are crazy about thin client - so | | | | reliable budget solution as a platform for light |
| where is C longevity? So, in 2004 we merged several | | | | customizationo Business System/CRM - CRM market |
| companies to serve large corporate businesses, | | | | should be considered a mature one in 2010, when such |
| positioning us as cross platform integrators and the | | | | pioneers as Siebel will cross 15 years of the existence. |
| company, envisioning harmony between multiple | | | | Again in our opinion you'd rather pay for small or |
| computer platforms and conceptions. Let us give you | | | | moderate customization to budget CRM solution to |
| our bullets below:o Microsoft Business Solutions pluses | | | | have work done. |
| - old conception that OS should be separate from the | | | | |